Hi and in Steve's kitchen today we making marshmallows
not those horrible cardboard sweet things you buy in the supermarket
the beautiful melt in the mouth homemade marshmallows. Now if you haven't made these at
home they are so simple to make because I'm making my own
I'm going to make passion fruit marshmallows because I can
let me show you how
Now just for starters I've got a little bit of vegetable oil
in a pot here now you could use one of those little spray cans of vegetable oil
if you prefer
and in this little shaker I'm putting equal amounts of cornflour
and confectionery sugar or powdered sugar so that's a blend of the two
and we're just using this for dusting you don't have to have it in a shaker if you
like you can just mix it in a bowl
Now I've got an eight inch or twenty centimeter square baking tray here
and I'm just going to line the inside with a little bit of vegetable oil
then I've cut a square of baking paper and I'm just going to pop that
in the bottom and then I'm going to sprinkle the inside with my corn starch and
icing sugar
remember to get it up the side as well
make sure you oiled up the sides and be pretty liberal with this dusting because
this is going to stop our marshmallow from sticking
Now let's get on to make the marshmallow Now you really are going to want a stand
mixer and whisk attachment to do this
I've got half a cup of cold water I'm just going to pop that into the bowl
and I'm going to sprinkle on top of that 20 grams that's three-quarter of an ounce
of unflavored gelatine and then we just want to leave this on the side for 10 minutes
to let the water absorb that gelatine
just lightly oil the inside of a measuring cup
and then we're just going to measure out 1 cup of glucose which I've warmed
slightly in the microwave just to make it easier to pour
and the reason I greased the inside of that cup is just because it makes it so much
easier to pour out into the pan, in with the glucose we're going to add half a cup
of water
and a cup and a half of granulated sugar
before we put that on the stove add a quarter teaspoon
of salt. Now we take this over to the stove and start to bring this up to heat on a
medium flame
now it's going to take some time and you really do need a candy thermometer to
perfect this
I'm going to bring this up to a temperature of 240 degrees
fahrenheit that's one fifteen celsius and I'm not going to stir it
I'm just going to leave it there and let it bubble as it starts to boil
I may adjust the heat down just a little bit and this process can take a good 10
to 15 minutes
Now I've just let that continue on a rolling simmer and you can see now it's coming up
to the softball
on the thermometer there and at this point we're just going to turn the heat off.
Now back over at our stand mixer the gelatine has set
I just want to drop the whisk in and turn at a very slow speed to break the gelatine up
Now what we need to do is take that molten sugar and just pour it
slowly into the mixer and down the side try not to hit the whisk
because as it hits the side it will solidify
and for the first few minutes we'll keep it at this slow speed because I don't want
the
cold liquid to spatter against the side of the bowl because it tends to set
and we can gradually increase the speed now after about three minutes that
starts to get a little bit of froth and bubbles into it I'm going to speed this up
and we're going to start to whisk this until it becomes light and fluffy
now for the last five minutes I'm going to turn this up to full speed
you can feel on the side of the bowl that it's still quite warm we want that to cool down a little
bit
now after ten minutes you can feel the side of the bowl started to cool down
so I'm turning that
right down low again and I'm going to add a teaspoon of vanilla extract
into that now and my passion fruit pulp now I've got a hundred grams that's three and a
half ounces we're just going to
gently pour that in, seeds and all by the way
do not be tempted to take the seeds out. Now I'm going to increase the speed a little
bit
just mix that for about a minute, minute-and-a-half ,okay lets turn that off
and we do want to work fairly quickly now
just knock any of the marshmallow off
into the bowl and then I'm using a spatula, a silicon spatula
which I oiled slightly I'm just going to pull
that marshmallow out into that prepared tray and then working quickly we just
want to spread this marshmallow
over the surface and then finally I'm taking another
oiled spatula and I'm just going to scrape across the top of this Marshmallow
to get it as flat as possible
and then we want to take a liberal dusting of corn starch and powdered sugar
sprinkle that over the top and then we want to leave this to set
on the side and it'll be a minimum of four to eight hours before this is ready to
handle
Now my marshmallow has set lovely I left it overnight and you can just pull
the marshmallow away from the side of the tin it should come away quite easily
and then I'm just going to turn it out onto a cutting surface
there you go
we can just take off the baking paper
and I want to dust this again with our corn flour and sugar mixture
and then I like to take a knife with a light coating of
oil on it and we can start to cut these marshmallows up just drag the knife
through like that
and you can see there how light and fluffy and delicious looking that
marshmallow is
and once you've cut your strips of course we're then just going to cut it to cubes
any size that you particularly like then I have a bowl of our flour and sugar mixture
here and I'm just going to drop those cubes of marshmallow in there
and just give them a light coating and there you have
our beautiful marshmallow soft fluffy
and delicious and you can take a group of them like that just give them a
little
rolling through shake off the excess dust
I mean these are absolutely delicious looking I've got the little seeds in
there as well
I know I love the little crunch of the passion fruit seeds
now I've dusted over my passion fruit marshmallow and they look delicious
let's try one here goes and if you haven't had homemade marshmallow before you are
really missing out
ahh there's an
essence of passion fruit in there it's absolutely fantastic, you get one of those little seeds
as well they are great, please
give this a try and share the love give this the thumbs up
and I'll see you next video take care.
Now I chose to do passion fruit marshmallows you could pretty much choose to do
any flavor you want, be creative, simple
plain marshmallows are great too. I'll leave a link to a couple of videos up here
and I love to hear your comments be good and I'll see you next time
take care